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- General Practice Workforce promotes careers in general practice in Tasmania and provides recruitment and retention services to attract general practitioners and other staff to work in General Practice.
General Practice Workforce currently delivers services to general practices in rural areas of the State (across RRMAs 3-7)
. Currently there are 94 practices and 267 GPs in RRMAs 3-7 across Tasmania.
1. RRMA divides Australia's states and territories into metropolitan, rural and remote zones:
RRMA 2 = other metropolitan centres / urban populations > 100 000RRMA 3 = large rural centres / urban centre populations 25 000 to 99 999 e.g. Launceston
RRMA 5 = other rural areas / urban centre populations < 10 000 e.g. St HelensRRMA 6 = remote centre s/ urban centre populations > 5000
For further information refer to http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/health-workforce-bmp-rrma.htm
Major Achievements:
We are the organisation which assesses all OTDs who wish to work as GPs in rural Tasmania on behalf of the Medical Council of Tasmania. This allows us to monitor and support all OTDs preparing for FRACGP and AMC exams
Challenges for the Future:
Major challenges include promoting rural general practice to undergraduates; adequately supporting OTDs and their families as they integrate into local communities; supporting communities without adequate practice infrastructure to build this in order to be able to recruit; assisting practices with their business models to remain viable.